Senate Report on Russia Interference in 2016 Election Campaign
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We ran the numbers: There are 1916 news articles covering this topic. 37% (707) are left leaning, 45% (863) center, 18% (346) right leaning.
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the most comprehensive and meticulous examination to date explaining how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. While left-leaning articles highlight that the committee’s counterintelligence investigation goes beyond the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller, right-leaning articles highlight that the Trump-Russia collusion narrative is contrived fiction.
A left-leaning article by CNN highlights that the committee’s counterintelligence investigation goes beyond the findings of former special counsel Robert Mueller released last year, as this report was led by then-Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, and Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. A key finding includes the fact that Trump and senior campaign officials sought to obtain advance information on WikiLeaks' email dumps through Roger Stone, and that Trump spoke to Stone about WikiLeaks.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort passed internal Trump campaign information to Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik during the 2016 election. The committee also found that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally behind the hack and leak operation that published stolen Democratic Party emails, and that WikiLeaks played a key role.
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that the Trump-Russia collusion narrative is contrived fiction from a collection of politically driven fables designed to defame and discredit Trump. The article claims that while people on Trump’s campaign did try to obtain “advance information” about WikiLeaks’ email dumps, so did journalists everywhere.